Toby Young is a c0nt

[Mr.Bishie]

He's a crack head, no doubt about it.

 

[DotCommunist]

he's confusing extreme right lib with anarchist. A bit like some loony tunes american 'right wing anarkos' do

 

[Balbi]

That Hitler, he was a socialist he was.

 

[nino_savatte]

I'm really tempted to troll his comments thread. There are some real headbangers on there.

 

[nino_savatte]

He's closed the comments thread.

Never mind, there's always Delingpole.

 

[Meltingpot]

I suppose that Young does prove one thing about Toryism - you can be as big a failure and shitcunt as he is (and anyone scrutinising his record will note that he's so incompetent he makes Mr. Bean look like a paragon of good practices), as long as you've been to the right school, and have the right connections, you'll still be able to "get on" in life, however stupid, inbred and downright poisonous you are.

Yeah, Toby Young is a kind of poster boy for a certain kind of public school ne'er do well who feels heartened by seeing someone else bungle through life and still land on their feet.

 

[Dogsauce]

He's just a professional ringpiece, his job is to keep the guardianistas and twitterati tied up in rage about his pointless sophomoric polemicism, while the real assholes hand over the NHS to Branson & McKinsey with a little cherry on top and go unmolested..

Come the revolution, we'll not put his head on a pole with the others, we'll maroon him on a boating lake island with enough food to live on but no human contact, see how long he can last without the much-craved-for attention.

 

[Santino]

He still is.

 

[Nylock]

...and no doubt always will be...

 

[Dogsauce]

It pays well, unfortunately. No incentive not to be a cockend.

 

[Nylock]

He has enough money and enough arrogance to enable his cockendism til the day he dies...

 

[DotCommunist]

cancer is no respecter of wealth

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

He is just so fucking enormously stupid it's genuinely unsettling. He's worth a follow on twitter just so you can see a genuine swivel-eyed loon at large. He runs a school! *kills self*

 

[stavros]

Anyone catch him on Newsnight last night, on the policing of social media?

 

[Gingerman]

One for the ladyeez.......

 

[Sue]

One for the ladyeez.......

I've never reported a post in my life but posting that with no warning... Probably merits a permaban at the very least.

 

[nino_savatte]

The helmeted one cites a 'report' (evidence free, of course) from Thatcherite think-tank, The Centre for Policy Studies, which claims the BBC has a "left-wing bias".

In addition, the BBC is more likely to qualify its report of a Right-of-centre think tank's report with a "health warning" – by stating its overall stance on a particular government policy, for instance, or its ideological position. Of the Left-of-centre think tanks in the CPS's survey – the Social Market Foundation, Demos, the New Economics Foundation and the Institute for Public Policy Research – only one (the IPPR) received a health warning from the BBC more than 10 per cent of the time, while another (the Social Market Foundation) has never received one.
Contrast this with the Right-of-centre think tanks in the survey – the Centre for Social Justice, the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Centre for Policy Studies, Policy Exchange and the Adam Smith Institute. All received health warnings at least 25 per cent of the time and some received health warnings 60 per cent of the time. "In other words, the BBC seems to treat Right-of-centre views as being more “extreme” and in need of caveats than roughly equivalent Left-of-centre views," writes Latham.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/t...needs-to-address-broadcasters-left-wing-bias/

"Health warnings"? Wtf? He's either on crystal meth or crack. Anyone who isn't a right-wing fucknut will know that the BBC's reportage since the Toxics took power in 2010 is biased to the Right.

 

[nino_savatte]

Toby Young bangs his the war drum for intervention in Syria. The "moral case" he says "is overwhelming".

I think there's a case for British military intervention in Syria provided it's approved by a majority of MPs, as my colleague Douglas Carswell says, and provided the House of Commons isn't misled by the Government. By "military intervention" I don't mean a full-scale invasion with troops on the ground. I mean a Cruise missile strike against military targets to deter Assad from using chemical weapons again. Simply recalling Parliament won't do. The Foreign Secretary will first need to set out the case in the House of Commons for limited intervention, making sure he doesn't misrepresent the evidence that Assad's regime has used weapons of mass destruction. After that, there should be a proper debate in which all sides have an opportunity to air their views, and then there should be a vote. Anything short of this would be politically disastrous for David Cameron – and Parliamentary approval, if it's secured, should not be regarded as a blank cheque by the Government. Any significant escalation in Britain's military involvement would also need to be sanctioned by the House of Commons. The motion before the Commons needs to be very carefully worded to avoid mission creep.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/t...tervention-is-now-overwhelming/#disqus_thread

 

[ViolentPanda]

Toby Young bangs his the war drum for intervention in Syria. The "moral case" he says "is overwhelming".

Young doesn't realise that "mission creep" has to be allowed for, because real life is a bit more complicated for most people than for him.

 

[nino_savatte]

Yeah, Toby Young is a kind of poster boy for a certain kind of public school ne'er do well who feels heartened by seeing someone else bungle through life and still land on their feet.

The thing is, Young never attended a public school. He went to comprehensive school in North London. His free school allows him to vicariously (and magically) resolve his dissatisfaction with never having been to a public school - where he clearly thinks he should have gone.

 

[Nylock]

If Young is so keen on military escalation, maybe he should be at the head of the ground invasion (should it happen).

 

[nino_savatte]

If Young is so keen on military escalation, maybe he should be at the head of the ground invasion (should it happen).

I'd happily wave him off.

 

[DotCommunist]

Toby Young, whose military knowledge comes from the tom clancy novels he reads on holiday

 

[nino_savatte]

Today's blog is a classic.

Britain has become a nation of crisp-eating surrender monkeys


It's hard not to conclude that Britain is a little bit smaller following last night's vote in the House of Commons. It wasn't just a rejection of military action against Syria; it was a declaration of neutrality. No longer can we pride ourselves on standing up to tyranny. Gone is the special relationship that meant Britain and America could always count on each other to commit blood and treasure to defending the principles of liberal democracy. The message sent out by the mother of parliaments last night to tyrants across the world was: "Do whatever you like. Gas your own citizens. Murder innocent children. Commit genocide. We won't lift a finger to stop you."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/t...e-a-nation-of-crisp-eating-surrender-monkeys/

Terrible headline. Terrible blog.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Terrible Cunt.

 

[Gingerman]

Today's blog is a classic.




Terrible headline. Terrible blog.

Gettin a well deserved kicking in the comments section

 

[nino_savatte]

Gettin a well deserved kicking in the comments section

Brilliant!

 

[agricola]

Terrible headline. Terrible blog.

Its even better today:

Sir David Frost has rightly been lauded by the obituarists, with all of them singling out the famous television interview in which he extracted a mea culpa from President Nixon over Watergate. No less a source than the Guardian described this as "his greatest journalistic coup".

But hang on a minute. Nixon was a former public official whom Frost paid for the story. Indeed, it was precisely because Nixon was paid by Frost's production company that the American television networks refused to distribute the programme, dismissing the whole enterprise as "checkbook journalism". Why, then, wasn't Frost arrested as part of Operation Elveden, the police investigation into journalists who've paid officials for stories?

As of 24th April 2013, 62 people had been arrested as part of this police investigation, many of them journalists accused of paying public officials or former public officials. If that's against the law, as the police seem to think, why didn't Frost have his collar felt?

Was it because Sir David, unlike most of the journalists who've been arrested, didn't work for The Sun? The Guardian has been leading the charge against the News International employees who've been targeted by the police as part of Operation Elveden and Operation Weeting. Perhaps Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger would like to explain why paying a former Ministry of Defence official for a story is morally reprehensible, but paying an ex-President for a story is a "great journalistic coup".

 

[nino_savatte]

Its even better today:

Just seen it. Jesus H Christ, what a load of twaddle.

 

[nino_savatte]

Today, Tobes asks his readers "Should I try and become a Tory MP"? This is clearly a man who knows his own sewer of a mind.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100234408/should-i-try-and-become-a-tory-mp/

There's more on his blog at The Dictator website.

The Hammersmith Conservative Association will shortly be looking for a candidate to run against the sitting Labour MP in 2015 and I’m thinking of applying. But by God, it’s a tough decision.

On the face of it, the case against is pretty overwhelming. The local MP, Andy Slaughter, has a majority of 3,549 and on current projections there will be a swingaway from the Tories in London. The Conservatives fielded a strong candidate in 2010 in the form of Shaun Bailey and still couldn’t win it. What hope would I have in 2015 — and that’s assuming I get selected, by no means a foregone conclusion? I’ve spoken to several members of the association and their view is that the successful candidate would have to be prepared to devote every waking moment to the campaign, not least because Slaughter is such a good constituency MP. They mean ‘good’ in the sense that he’ll turn up to the opening of an envelope.

One of the reasons he can do this is because politics is his life. He’s unmarried and childless, which means he doesn’t have to do bath-and-bed every night and his weekends are his own. When it comes to attending meetings of the Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group, I wouldn’t be able to compete. Not a good starting point. Running a parliamentary campaign in a marginal constituency is a full-time job and, quite apart from the wife and kids, I already have a full-time voluntary job as chairman of the West London Free School Academy Trust. We’ve opened two schools so far and we’re planning to open at least six more. I spend 40 to 60 hours a week on Trust business, which leaves little time for paid work, let alone more voluntary work.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/life/status-anxiety/9012421/im-thinking-of-going-into-politics/

I'm sure the local Tory Party will pull out all the stops. They're already involved in a massive gerrymandering project that will see thousands of homes demolished on the West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates.